See http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31300982. A general discussion of developments in wind power, the flying wind turbine section is some way down the article. But this time they're ten years away from being ready.

But Jan Matthieson at the UK's Carbon Trust argues there are "a lot of questions and a lot of risks with airborne power".
"A lot more work and testing needs to be done for these companies to build up a track record, and with very high [development] costs it will be difficult for new technologies to break into the market."
He believes it will be at least 10 years before flying turbines reach widespread commercialisation.

At the bottom of the article it claims that 31% of China's energy comes from wind power, I'd like to see independent verification of that!

"Efficiency has always been a strange critique given that the fuel driving turbines - wind - is free."

You'd think that a 'business reporter', even one that works for the BBC, might be a bit more economically literate when discussing wind energy. The fuel might be nominally free, but you still have to build an expensive machine to get at this fuel, and the more efficient the machine is, the better the return on your investment in building this expensive machine. It might also be argued that wind isn't a free fuel. Most windfarm developers are I believe renting land from farmers or landowners, and what they're doing to a large extent is renting the volume of air above the land, this particular volume of air having the attribute of a reasonably high average wind speed.

The main thing that interested me about the article is the figure given in the table for UK installed wind capacity, 12440 MW. That figure is a bit higher than I expected - as I remember it the UK wind capacity was only about 4400 MW when the Coalition government came to power in May 2010. With the Lib Dems in charge of DECC, wind turbines appear to be being built at a rate several times higher than what was happening with the previous Labour government. After further checking with Wikipedia that 12440 MW figure is for the end of 2014, so it may be somewhat higher than that after several more months.

The impression that you get from the UK left-liberal media is that the current Coalition government is less Green-leaning than the previous Labour government. The phrase "greenest government ever" that David Cameron promised when the Coalition came into power is mentioned just about every week by somebody on the BBC News channel, but is almost always referred to sarcastically.

I think what's different about the Coalition government's period of office is that you now hear much more scepticism of Greenery from politicians. When Labour was in power anti-Green dissent was almost invisible, and the opposition under Cameron was encouraging Labour to be even more Green-leaning. The left-liberal media is spooked by the more visible dissent of the past few years rather than taking note of such things as there being a lot more wind turbines installed.